I know! It sounds terribly cheesy and may have even made you eye roll but, really, photography just has my heart. Like, I carried a neon pink, see through film camera in my back pocket in the early 2000's before camera phones were a thing. I kept a camera in my high school locker and a camera in my car and another on my bedroom dresser. It was wild!

In some of my earliest memories, I'm sitting on my parents' bed, pouring through brown photo albums with sticky paper and blurry photographs, totally absorbed in seeing people I knew and loved before I knew and loved them. 1970's photographs of my mom and her friends posing on a Gulf Shores beach, photographs of my dad wearing bell bottoms on his Mountain Home porch, a photograph of my teenage grandmother walking down the street with a shopping bag, photographs of my older brothers before I was born - I loved them all!

And when I deliver photographs to my people? I want to take all the love that I have for photography, bottle it up in a gallery, and deliver that feeling to each and every person I photograph. When you receive your heirloom images, I want you to fall in love the way that I fall in love with all of my images and, more importantly, I want everyone you know - your best friend from fifth grade and your mother and your sister and the girl who used to sit by you in your Freshman Biology class - to look at your photographs and say "These are so YOU!!" with a huge grin and huge hug because, in those photographs, they don't just see a pretty photograph of a pretty person: They see heart instead. They see YOU! And it's magic!